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This voyage determined that the fur trade would be profitable in the region. As such, the Dutch established the colony of New Netherland. [8] The Dutch settled three major outposts: New Amsterdam, Wiltwyck, and Fort Orange. [7] New Amsterdam was founded at the mouth of the Hudson River, and would later become known as New York City. Wiltwyck ...
Fort Nassau was the first Dutch settlement in North America, located beside the "North River" (the modern Hudson) within present-day Albany, New York, in the United States. The factorij was a small fortification which served as a trading post and warehouse.
The first recorded exploration by the Dutch of the area around what is now called New York Bay was in 1609 with the voyage of the ship Halve Maen (English: "Half Moon"), commanded by Henry Hudson [7] in the service of the Dutch Republic, as the emissary of Maurice of Nassau, Prince of Orange and stadholder of Holland. Hudson named the river the ...
Rensselaerswyck [a] was a Dutch colonial patroonship and later an English manor owned by the van Rensselaer family located in the present-day Capital District of New York in the United States. The estate was originally deeded by the Dutch West India Company in 1630 to Kiliaen van Rensselaer , a Dutch merchant and one of the company's original ...
New Amsterdam and the overall colony of New Netherland was renamed New York, after the Duke of York. [18] The Dutch regained New York temporarily, only to relinquish it again a few years later, thus ending Dutch control over New York and the Hudson River. [18]
In 1617, officials of the Dutch West India Company in New Netherland created a settlement at present-day Albany, and in 1624 founded New Amsterdam, on Manhattan Island.The Dutch colony included claims to an area comprising all of the present U.S. states of New York, New Jersey, Delaware, and Vermont, along with inland portions of Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Maine in addition to eastern ...
New Netherland colony, New Amsterdam capital. In 1621, the Dutch West India Company was founded for the purpose of trade. The WIC was chartered by the States-General and given the authority to make contracts and alliances with princes and natives, build forts, administer justice, appoint and discharge governors, soldiers, and public officers, and promote trade in New Netherland. [5]
Eisenstadt, Peter, ed. Encyclopedia of New York State (Syracuse UP, 2005) pp. 1048–1053.. Fabend, Firth Haring. 2012. New Netherland in a nutshell: a concise history of the Dutch colony in North America. Albany, NY: New Netherland Institute; 139pp; Goodwin, Maud (1921). Dutch and English on the Hudson : a chronicle of colonial New York. Yale ...